CarrieK | August 15, 2010
Challenge host: J. Kaye’s Book Blog I am committing to the Just My Size Challenge: to check out and read 50 library books during 2010. 1. Questions About Angels: Poems by Billy Collins 2. Paper Towns by John Green 3. Storm Front by Jim Butcher 4. Looking for Alaska by John Green 5. An Abundance [...]
CarrieK | August 8, 2010
I didn’t do a Sunday Salon or a July wrap-up last week, so here’s both in one post. I’ve had some great reading experiences this past week – including finishing The Help and Red Hook Road on audio and Beautiful Creatures in print. Today, I gave up on The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay [...]
CarrieK | July 8, 2010
I don’t know who Amy Einhorn is, but she sure knows how to pick books! The Amy Einhorn Books imprint is part of Putnam, and the books published under this imprint all seem to have a couple of things in common: they tell a great story and they are beautifully written. Because all Amy Einhorn [...]
CarrieK | July 1, 2010
Kiss the Blarney Stone level: 6 books 1. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde – completed 2/14/2010 2. An Irish Country Girl by Patrick Taylor – completed 3/8/2010 3. Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy – completed 5/12/2010 4. Far From the Land: An Irish Memoir by Thomas J. Rice – completed 5/19/2010 5. [...]
CarrieK | July 1, 2010
Challenge host: Royal Reviews I am committing to the “obsessed” level – to listen to at least 20 audiobooks during 2010. 1. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford – completed 2/7/2010 2. U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton – completed 2/10/2010 3. King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised [...]
CarrieK | June 23, 2010
Title: The Lace Makers of Glenmara Author: Heather Barbieri Genre: Contemporary fiction Publisher: Harper Perennial Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Source: Review copy from TLC Book Tours First line: Kate had been traveling the road for hours, the rain her sole companion. All that day and into the evening, their fingers flew. The patterns [...]
CarrieK | June 19, 2010
First of all, I want to highlight an event I am very excited about – Audiobook Week! Jen at Devourer of Books is putting this together for next week, June 21st to 25th, and she has some fantastic ideas for theme posts and some great giveaways going on. If you love audiobooks as much as [...]
CarrieK | June 18, 2010
Challenge host: J. Kaye’s Book Blog I’m committing to the Just My Size YA Reading Challenge to read 25 YA novels during 2010. 1. Paper Towns by John Green 2. This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer 3. Looking for Alaska by John Green 4. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare 5. An [...]
